TC Yasi - OK, Now I'm a tad concerned

[Crazy Dog]

Yep - getting belted with huge gusts here in Edmonton.

BY the map we are about 1/2 way... another 3 or so hrs to go I suppose...hanging in there - then I will have a tinny or twenty.

So far 2 trees (both fishtails??) are down - heapsa leaves an palm frond ends - so far no damage..Winds are now getting up as I type this so.......

Vicious winds now...and we are on the outside edge of the destructive wind zone..


Grrr!!!

[jclures]

We are getting a fair bit of wind and rain up here to, we have had now power for a few hours, generator is doing its thing.

[Brett]

Hang in there guys. We are all thinking of you. Keep safe and out of harms way.

[AKB]

Thinking of everyone in FNQ - keep safe

[Teabag]

OK, just got back from sum running repairs. We have now lost all power and now running off the generator.......The wind gusts a crazy. Whole family is now awake with the little ones a little scared. We are all safe and the house is holding up well........

[Barry G]

Thinking of all of you Teabag

[Teabag]

Thinking of all of you Teabag

Cheers, a little pucker factor now....... ........

[Aussie Spirit]

Just received an SMS from the nephew who lives in Ingham, has lost the Titan shed and the pergola so far.

[Teabag]

All looks pretty good for us, no damage that I know off. Still no power but gennie doing it best ..........Just glad we made it through safe as it did get a little worrying there at stages........

[paul06]

all good and not to much damage where we are but need to get back to holloways to see the house,and i managed to sink a few beers ,to top it off its my b,day!!!!!!!!!

[TOPNDR]

Mrs T & I camping in Tassie. Uncle & Aunt in their 70's house sitting Kuranda home, north fcing that sits on a high hill, south of the township.

Uncle reports no electricity, no damage, no trees down though increased leave litter. He & aunt slept well, once their phone stopped ringing.  Not bad for their first cyclone!

We, and they, are very fortunate.

[jclures]

We have survived the night, no major damage that I can see here, plenty of wind and rain still.

[kiwicampers]

Just listening to the reports from over the ditch!  Hope all is well as can be expected over there.  Thinking of you and stay as safe as you all can.
KC

[jclures]

Power came on this afternoon, and the phone about 2 hours ago, now we just have to clean up the back yard. Duggie bogged his bob cat coming up to give me a hand clean up this afternoon, had to winch it out with the Nisota.

[Estelle]

Power came on this afternoon, and the phone about 2 hours ago, now we just have to clean up the back yard. Duggie bogged his bob cat coming up to give me a hand clean up this afternoon, had to winch it out with the Nisota.

Hi John,

I really hope you took some pics of the Nisota doing the deed      

Edit:  maybe a photo of the month contender at some stage.

[jclures]

I have to admit, I never thought of a photo until I got home for a beer, the bobcat was down though, the ground was like porridge.

[MattNQ]

Glad to hear the FNQ MySwaggers seem to have come out of it relatively unscathed. She was a nasty one, that's for sure.
Standing on the footpath in Townsville today - all you can hear in every direction  -  generators & chainsaws!

[bert56]

Good to hear so little damage.

Bert

[tropicbird54]

Yay!!  We have phones and internet again!   
Well, that was a Wed night to remember!!   Some pretty hairy gusts of wind there for a few hours - shut the computer down once the lights started flickering - but lo and behold, we never lost power!!!!!     Now, that is definitely a first for a cyclone.  Still can't believe it!! How lucky!
Hope everyone faired as well as we did.  No structural damage just the garden took a beating.
We so feel for those around Tully, Mission Beach, Cardwell etc.   It must have been so scary to go through it down there.
Couldn't believe what the foreshore of Cardwell now looks like.  Use to always stop for a pie on our way to Townsville and walk through the trees down to the little beach.   What terrible devastation!!
Once again, Cairns has been spared.

[Sharky]

Sorry Bert but while I know you mean well, I can't let your comment go through to the keeper.

While I'm certainly thankful that TC Yasi did not hit any major population centres like Cairns or Townsville. I still think that we should'n't forget that at least three towns were utterly devastated by this monster storm. Tully, Mision Beach and Cardwell got smacked by Yasi with a level of destruction commensurate with a CAT 5 Cyclone.

Cairns and Townsville did receive relatively little damage (but storm damage none the less)- but they were 130 and 150 km from the impact zone.

My thoughts are with those around the impact zone whose lives have been turned upside down (literally). In these areas, the damage is catastrophic.

That so few lives were lost is testament to the preps made by all you Queenslanders - great job. But the real work has just begun - I know where my charity donations are going this year.

[Paul and Bern]

  I thought I put a post up this morning...doh.  We survived ok, cut and run to Mum's at Bayview when it turned cat 5 and for nth of Cairns.  Back fence is down but it's nothing.  Yeah power came on around 2am today, the genny was driving me nuts.
Has anyone heard from Janine and Andy?
Friends at Tully came through with little damage to house.  It seems you either got little damage or lost the lot, no in-between.

Thanks for all the wishes,
Paul